Many people don’t know that Japan and the Soviet Union never made peace with each other after the Second World War (which Japan started years before Germany fired a shot). Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991/92, Russian and Japanese officials could not bring themselves to settle their differences regarding the territorial disputes as a result of the end of the Second World War.
For the past decade, Russia has built-up military forces on islands that are almost a stone’s throw from Hokkaido.
On 16MAR2022, Japan threw its hat into the Ukraine Crisis ring, on the side of Ukraine, sending a shipment of supplies onboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globmaster-3.
Video, by U.S. Navy’s Petty Officer Second Class Jack Aistrup, of remarks made by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, Oniki Makoto from Japan’s Ministry of Defence, and Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of Ukraine in Japan Oleksandr Semeniuk:
2016: RUSSIA DELIVERS KC-130J SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN JAPAN!
World War 3, 2014: JAPAN LEANS TOWARDS RUSSIA?
World War 3, 2012: JAPAN CANCELS MEETINGS WITH RUSSIA, CHINA, KOREA OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS. SEEKS TO INCREASE MILITARY TIES WITH UNITED STATES!
World War 3, 2011: RUSSIA BUILDING UP MILITARY ON ISLANDS JUST NORTH OF JAPAN
RUSSIA DECLARES NO FLY ZONE NEAR JAPAN, SENDS TWO BOMBERS AROUND JAPAN